Accessing SharePoint

One of your first questions should be this.…What are you going to use when learning how to do all the SharePoint stuff?…Well, what I'm fully expecting is that you already have an existing…SharePoint 2010 server installation that someone else has already installed…that you can play with.…What that means is I am expecting right now you could open up a web browser…and type in the address of a SharePoint site that you know you already have access to.…That could be a really long address.…It could be a really short address.…

It could be a .com address.…It could be an internal server name. It doesn't matter, and whether the site that…you see looks anything like the one I'm looking at now, whether it looks…completely different,…that doesn't matter either.…But I'm expecting that you can already go to SharePoint 2010 site, and if…you can, that's great.…We will start from there.…But what if you don't?…Well, to properly learn SharePoint, you are of course going to need access to…a SharePoint server.…Now, the response I often get from people is "well, can I just quickly go…

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6/24/2010

In SharePoint 2010 Essential Training, author Simon Allardice demonstrates the full feature set in SharePoint 2010 and the necessary skills to be a SharePoint site administrator. The course shows how to use SharePoint, create sites and site collections, and plan and design sites and portals. It also covers Office integration, security and permissions, and advanced features such as document management and business intelligence.

Topics include:

Understanding a SharePoint team site

Navigating lists and libraries

Creating Document Workspaces

Using versioning and check-in/check-out

Integrating with Office 2010 applications

Adding and deleting users

Creating workflows

Working with server site templates

Creating a wiki and a blog

Working with rich media

Managing documents and other content

Sharing information with charts and status indicators

Skill Level Beginner

6h 58m

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Q: In the "Adding a user to a site" movie, the instructor shows how to add a user to SharePoint and demonstrates by adding a user named “gini.” But gini is already set up and recognized by SharePoint. What if I have no users set yet? How can I add someone?

A: SharePoint doesn't store a separate user database; it wants to be pointed to an existing source of users, like Active Directory. If you don't have that, you need to first add your new users as local accounts on the Windows box you installed SharePoint on. Only then will you be able to give them permission on a SharePoint site.